Flora and Fauna, Diageo's future plans.

The expansions are mostly for the blend malt. It's Diageo's policy to release at least a limited bottling series from each distillery. So you can expect a Roseisle bottle available in small numbers on the market. The Flora and Fauna of Mortlach has already dissapeared from most shelves. Only a limited amount was released each year and with the hype surrounding the new Mortlach series, most bottles were bought by collectors or hardcore fans within days after the news hit the wires.

Diageo's has to find a balance between the increasing demand for single malt and the regular production of whisky for their blends.So they've increased their production at almost every distillery and are currently trying to divert our attention to their overprised single grain products.

I expect that new mastodons like Roseisle and Teannich II, will allow them to free up more whisky for the single malt range, but only for those distilleries that have been included in the Classic Malt range. Distilleries like Lagavulin have been repositioned so the bulk of their production will now be bottled as a single malt. (which makes me hopeful that they will rebuild Port Ellen as soon as the old stocks dry up to relieve some pressure of the Lagavulin distillery).

As for Mortlach, Benrinnes and Dailuaine, I don't think the official bottlings were the best these distilleries have to offer, a large range of their products have been made available trough independent bottlers.